Instructors/Teaching Assistants (TA): Beyte
Barrios Roque, Angelle Bullard-Roberts
TA office and office hours:
provided by your TA
TA e-mails: bbarr006@fiu.edu; abull005@fiu.edu
Lab sections:
|
Section |
Day |
Time |
Lab
Room |
Teaching
Assistant | |
|
U01 |
T |
1430-1720 |
OE169 |
Angelle Bullard-Roberts | |
|
U02 |
W |
0800-1050 |
OE169 |
Angelle Bullard Roberts | |
|
U03 |
W |
1100-1350 |
OE169 |
Beyte Barrios Roque | |
|
|
U04 |
W |
1400-1650 |
OE169 |
Beyte Barrios Roque |
Lab Manual: Lab assignments
will be available on-line and should be printed out and read before coming to
class. Lecture syllabus: http://www2.fiu.edu/~kopturs/BOT1010LecSyll2013.htm
Reading
Assignments: Every student is required to read each lab assignment
before the lab period. This is essential for you to fully understand the
procedures and to be able to complete the tasks and answer the questions for
each assignment. Weekly quizzes will be based on the assigned readings for
the previous week. Bring your lab manual and notebooks to class each week.
Grading Scale:
A= 90-100%;
B= 80-89%; C= 70-79%; D= 60-69%; F= 0-59%
Quizzes
and homework 100 pts (11
assignments/drop lowest grade)
Pot-luck presentation
50 pts
Final:
100 pts
Lab Portfolios:
100 pts
Lab Participation: 50 pts
Attendance at lab is mandatory! If you miss more than 2 labs you will receive an F as your lab grade, regardless of whether you have an excuse. You must be registered for the section that you plan on attending and you must attend ALL of the labs. If this is going to be a problem, you need to drop this course. We will always have more than enough to do in the time provided. Do NOT schedule doctor or dentist appointments during class time.
Lab Notebook: Please use a 3-ring binder notebook to use for
your lab notebook (your TA has an example). You will use this notebook to
hold your print-outs of the lab exercises and to write your observations and
results from both inside and outside experiments and field trips. The
lab notebook provides information to direct your observation and study of plant
specimens and other materials, as well as directions for your experiments, and
demonstrations.
Bring your notebook to every lab period.
Lab portfolios: Construction of a laboratory portfolio
will assist you in recalling data, observations and experiences, and assist in
the evaluation of your learning.
Knowledge gained in the laboratory is expected to be incorporated into
your learning portfolios, and will be included in quizzes and exams. You are expected to do your own
work. When lab work is being
conducted as a series of teams, then it is expected that data and results will
be shared within and between teams, but written summaries and answers to
questions must be done individually.
Video and digital images may also be shared among and between teams. Each student's portfolio should be your own
original collection of observations and information, put together in a
meaningful way.
Practical Exams: There will be a
final practical exam on the date designated for the Final Exam. There
will be no make-up exams given.
You are expected to be on
time to class, and to stay the full period. You are expected to maintain high
standards of academic honesty. Any student found in violation of these standards
will earn an automatic F and be reported to the Deans
Office, no exceptions made. In accordance with FIU's policy on academic honesty,
as set forth in Section 2.44 of the Academic Affairs Policies and Procedures
Manual (http://academic.fiu.edu/docs/aapolicies.htm), it is expected that
students in Intro Botany will not submit the academic work of another as their
own. Additional discussion of academic honesty and integrity may be found in the
Manual of Student Conduct.
Schedule of
Events
|
Week |
Date |
Topic |
|
1 |
Jan 8-9 |
First meeting of class
Glossary |
|
2 |
Jan 15-16 |
Introduction
and planting
for growth experiments. Inside |
|
3 |
Jan 22-23 |
|
|
4 |
Jan 29-30 |
Scientific
method and general
plant morphology. Inside and outside
|
|
5 |
Feb 5-6 |
Growth experiments, apical dominance. Inside, outside, and greenhouse. |
|
6 |
Feb 12-13 |
Transpiration
experiment. Inside outside, and greenhouse; check on growth trials and
hormone experiments. |
|
7 |
Feb 19-20 |
Introduction to microscope, biology of periphyton, demos of fungi, algae and lichens. Inside |
|
8 |
Feb 26-27 |
General campus and conservatory tour, primitive
plants and gymnosperms.
Outside |
|
9 |
Mar 5-6 |
Visit to Fairchild Tropical Garden. Outside. Portfolios due by Friday 5 pm. |
|
10 |
Mar 12-13 |
Spring Break; no lab this
week |
|
11 |
Mar 19-20 |
Supermarket botany, flowers and fruits. Inside. |
|
12 |
Mar 26-27 |
|
|
13 |
Apr 2-3 |
Plants
at FIU. Outside Key
to campus plants (do not print out for lab--copies available in
class) for use of dichotomous keys. See also |
|
14 |
Apr 9-10 |
Visit
to Fruit and Spice Park.
Outside |
|
15 |
Apr 16-17 |
Botanical
pot-luck with your presentation of plants used.
Inside |
|
16 |
Apr 23-24 |
Final Exam |
Back to lecture syllabus: http://www.fiu.edu/~kopturs/BOT1010LecSyll2013.htm